Monthly Archives: October 2011

As I had mentioned in a previous post, we are now actively hiring software developers to our development center in Tel Aviv, Israel.

As part of the interviewing process, we see software developers (and other candidates) look at various alternatives, and having a hard time to decide on a potential direction for their software career. The decisions are naturally harder for young developers who haven’t yet established some career path; but, I’m sometimes surprised to see senior engineers who seriously look at options very distant from one another, such as (as one example) building security devices vs. building web applications.

Here’s my two cents on things to look for in starting (and building) a career in software. Some of the considerations below are specific to engineering positions (developers and testers) but many are as applicable to additional roles such as product management, project management, product marketing and at times sales.Continue reading →